OH, CH J IRON FIST, YOU CRAFTY DEVIL!

Blogging Tax Court is so much fun. I sometimes pity those law review writers and trade-press types, with their festoons of footnotes and “somber reasoning and copious citation of precedent,” plowing agonizingly through the dustbowl of appellate jurisprudence.

I’m more of a freelance vagabond, driftin’ along with the tumblin’ cliché.

“Recently, you sent a request for me to submit to your jurisdiction by: (1) filing an Amended Petition and (2) sending a filing fee on or before December 15, 2016. It would be an Order if I were subject to the limited jurisdiction the USTC and IRS are only authorized to operate within. Your request had a sub silentio design in its intent to draw me into your territorial jurisdiction for the express purpose to allow the USTC and by extension, the IRS, to impose the federal income tax that has been levied only upon the National Government per The Legislative Intent of the 16th Amendment, written by former POTUS William H. Taft on June 16, 1909. Therefore, the federal income tax is only applicable within the jurisdiction of the statutory ‘United States’ meaning the District of Columbia.

“I exist ‘outside the statutory United States’ as an American National [nonresident alien non US person] with no taxation nexus to the jurisdiction of the US Tax Court, the statutory ‘United States’ [26 USC§7408(d)].” Order, at p. 1. (Some emphasis in original omitted).

Oh, Ch J Iron Fist, you crafty devil you!

Nothing daunted, Ch J Iron Fist: “…it appearing that petitioners do not intend to file an amended petition and pay the filing fee as directed in the Court’s Order,” the case is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

Lou (TBATS”) & Beth, take a look at Section 6673, before you have your next bright idea.

An author, teacher, advocate and trusted advisor, Lew Taishoff is a New York City-based attorney with 51 years of experience in corporate and individual tax and real estate matters. He is an Enrolled Agent, examined and admitted to practice before the Internal Revenue Service, and admitted to practice before the United States ... Continue reading →